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National Incident Management System (NIMS)
National Incident Management System
It is important to know that NIMS stands for National Incident Management System which is a structured framework which is used national wide by both the governmental and nongovernmental organizations in responding to natural disasters. Preparedness is one it components. Preparedness includes the crucial steps that are undertaken in forecasting the future and taking the initiative to ensure that future is secure (capola 2001). In our practical example it is inevitable for Greensburg having been hit by tornadoes once that totally destroyed come up with measure that will that the people are ready and well armed when such an event occurs in the future. One of the measures of preparedness includes training community so they may learn effective alert measures and how they could keep themselves safe. The staff also needs training so that they can effectively know how to manage incidents.
It is important that the designation of the incident commander be determined at the state or national level. Almost each and every single day communities do respond to very many emergencies effectively at the local levels. But there are some incidents that require a collaborative approach so as to effectively respond to the incidents. Thus local levels may not be able to mange some complicated incident such as tornadoes. The collaborative approaches include the state as whole and it multiple jurisdictions. They may also include the nongovernmental organizations, the private sectors and lastly the combination of disciplines or specialties. The management with NIMS ensures that people work together when the communities and the nation need them most. Thus at all times the NIMS is supposed to work at the state level and not to limited to the local community to deal with a disaster such as tornadoes( Mathew 2003).
The NIMS will always include the mitigating and recover efforts. This ensures that if the community suffers such a disaster there is a way to repair the damages that so that the scars caused by the incident are erasable. This for example includes putting up funds for the special programs such as building back the building that were destroyed. There are also businesses which may need to be put back. The combined efforts of the various organizations may be put together to foresee to this.
Loosing lives is so far the largest damage that tornadoes may cause and thus the most important long term safety need for any community is ensuring that the lives of the people are preserved (Capola 2001). This is by establishing weather stations which are well armed with necessary equipment that will undertake research at various periods to foretell a coming tornado so as to alert the people. The stations by using the modern technologies can also try to find out the cause of the previous tornado and if such causes can be prevented.
The best practices such as preparedness and use of combined efforts in responding to a disaster have proved to be very effective and could be used very effectively in response to the Greensburg event.
References
Capola,D.(2001) Introduction to international disaster management. United States. University Press.
Mathew. G(2003) Importance of disaster preparedness. California. Nova publishers.
National Health Service in England
National Health Service in England
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National Health Service in England
The National Health Service body has touched lives of many people globally due to its significant contributions to the healthcare sector. The National Health Service Act advocated for universal free health care provided by a wide variety of physicians such as dentists, opticians as well as doctors among other hospital services. During this era poverty, sickness and unemployment in the society after the end of the world war. It was historically marked by the action of bringing all the physicians in the medicine field under one bracket where they could offer free healthcare services. The primary principles regarding National Health Service are precise that tax will fully finance the free health services to all people. It significantly meant that people have to pay for the health services offered but at their own means and time. The history of National Health Service in England since its establishment up to the year 2000 are discussed into a profound extent regarding the changes and developmental activities that has been instigated by the organization.
In the year 1948, Aneurin Bevan who was the health secretary took the initial step of launching the National Health Service at the Park Hospital in Manchester. It was a radical move which laid the background for the hospitals, doctors, nurses, dentists and the opticians to work together as in providing the free healthcare services to the civilians (Jones & Exworthy, 2015). It is a significant symbol of national cohesion where the public have free access to therapeutic services regardless of the wealth as well as the social class that one belongs to. It has been evident that the quality of medical services in various societies depend with the amount of payment leading to corruption and many other immoral vises in the community where the physicians take advantage of the patients’ ill-health. This was the kind of situation the National Health Service in England aimed to evade as everybody’s life and good state of health are valued and vital in enhancing the social-economic development of the nation.
In the evolvement of National Health Service, the introduction of charges prescription is a significant bit in the line of the organization’s history. In 1952, one shilling charge for the prescriptions was introduced after the decisions made by the people on top hierarchy, and it was later abolished in the 65s. After the abolition of medicament charges, the treatment remained unchanged up to the year 1968 when the charges were introduced again. Also, the launching of the program to fight against diphtheria and polio infections was an essential life-saving action initiated by the National Health Service (Guest, et al. 2015). According to the organization decision all the people under the age of fifteen years have to be vaccinated against polio and diphtheria. These two pandemics are life-threatening and detrimental to human well-being thus obtaining their vaccine as well as preventing their spread was a crucial achievement in the healthcare sector.
Availing of the contraceptive pills was another National Health Service organization objective that was vital and touching in the social living of people in the community. They significantly played an essential role in preventing unwanted pregnancy not only during the twentieth-century era but also in the society today. The number of women using contraceptive pills increased dramatically at the 1960s from around fifty thousand to about one million females. The hospital plan was another strategy that was criticized by the physicians where the National Health Service had to be divided into general practice, hospital and the local health authorities. During the calls of amalgamation, it was realized the establishment of district hospitals in the regions with high population. Also, the plan was essential in reducing the cost and time taken in the construction of new healthcare facilities.
The Report by Salmon recommended the expansion of the senior nursing staff as well as the energy put in trying to come up with practical measures to curb the disadvantages of the three segmented National Health Service structure. It was an effective way of recognizing the complexity of the National Health Service as well as the essential changes to be made to make the future objectives accomplishable. In the 1970s the computed tomography scans were introduced as they are critical to revolutionizing how the medic specialists examine the body (Abel-Smith & Titmuss, 2016). Apart from the MRI scans, which provide information about the organization that was introduced in the 1980s, the Keyhole surgery, black report, Aids health campaign and breast screening was also launched. The black report involves research regarding the inequality that exists in the healthcare centers where the black had the higher tendency to demise. The beginning of the Aids campaign was significant, and its impacts are experienced up to today as people are fully aware of the deleterious disease.
In the 1990s a variety of strategies were put in place by the National Health Service. These plans include National Health Service and the community care act; the initial National Health Service trusts developed as well as the organization’s direct launches. The community care act instigated that the healthcare managements manage their budgets and purchase the health services from other medical institutions (Morris, et al. 2014). The National Health Service direct launches play a vital role in the community of proving throughout online medical services. Lastly, in the year 2000, the National Health Service introduced the new health facilities that could be accessed at any time.
Throughout its history line, the National Health Service has been innovative and effective in offering the best health care services for free or even at a lower and affordable cost. As technology advances, with time great inventions are put in place, and they are vital in maintaining good well-being. National Health Service is a remarkable organization that has played recommendable activities in the medical field, and it touches both the present and future behavior.
References
Abel-Smith, B., & Titmuss, R. M. (2016). The cost of the national health service in England and Wales. Cambridge University Press.
Guest, J. F., Ayoub, N., McIlwraith, T., Uchegbu, I., Gerrish, A., Weidlich, D., … & Vowden, P. (2015). Health economic burden that wounds impose on the National Health Service in the UK. BMJ open, 5(12), e009283.
Jones, L., & Exworthy, M. (2015). Framing in policy processes: A case study from hospital planning in the National Health Service in England. Social Science & Medicine, 124, 196-204.
Morris, S., Karlsen, S., Chung, N., Hill, M., & Chitty, L. S. (2014). Model-based analysis of costs and outcomes of non-invasive prenatal testing for Down’s syndrome using cell free fetal DNA in the UK National Health Service. PloS one, 9(4), e93559.
NATIONAL COHESION AND VALUES INDICATOR TARGETS FOR
NATIONAL COHESION AND VALUES INDICATOR TARGETS FOR 2020/2021 PERFORMANCE CONTRACT PERIOD
National Cohesion and Values – This is an indicator that aims to promote national cohesion, national values and principles of governance to create a transformed, cohesive, peaceful, united and values-driven nation.
MDAs will be required to implement commitments and way forward in the 2018 Annual President’s Report on National Values and Principles of Governance.
To achieve this, MDAs are expected to:
Implement at least five (5) commitments and submit in the prescribed format an Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the commitments and way forward captured in the 2018 Annual President’s Report on National Values and Principles of Governance (60%).
The following are the eight (8) commitments and way forward in the 2018 President’s Annual Report on measures taken and progress Achieved:
Align policies and implement programs, projects and activities to the realization of the Big 4 agenda;
Continual fight against corruption,ehance judicial processes and capacity building to facilitate dispensation of justice and adherence to the rule of law;
Continual public awareness creation, capacity building, enforcement and monitoring of national values and principles of governance;
Support the building bridges initiative by implementing interventions aimed at promoting national unity and nationhood.;
Continual preparedness, collaborative ways to enhance public safety and security and the fight against terrorism.;
Enhance collaboration between the two levels of government to entrench sharing and devolution of power
Implement measures to support gender mainstreaming and youth empowerment;
Enhance the protection of the environment by securing riparian lands, water towers, improving the national forest cover and other measures to facilitate sustainable development;
Submit in the prescribed format the Annual Report on measures taken and progress achieved in the realization of National Values and Principles of Governance (40%).
The above two reports shall be submitted to the Directorate of National Cohesion and Values by 15th January 2021 through hard copy OR emailed to
info2@cohesionandvalues.go.ke OR nationalvalues2017@gmail.com.
NB:
1.The Directorate will analyze MDAs’ annual reports and issue a certificate of compliance at the end of the performance contract period.
For any clarification/additional information regarding this indicator, contact the Directorate of National Cohesion and Values on tel.
No. 0758 – 948706 or 0712 – 382871 or email: nationalvalues2017@gmail.com.